Our real journey in life is interior.
Interpretation
The true essence of living involves self-discovery and introspection.
Thomas Merton's quote emphasizes that the most significant experiences in our lives are not those that occur in the external world, but rather the internal journey of self-reflection and personal growth. It invites us to explore our thoughts, feelings, and spiritual beliefs as a fundamental part of our existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-improvement, you might say, 'Our real journey in life is interior.'
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
You are made in the image of what you desire.
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
The laws of physics that we regard_x000D_ as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything_x000D_ but.
There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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